PAN and PRD: The Case of the NAFTA Flu

These are guesses. I can't prove the virus was caused by NAFTA. An army of business lawyers will be after me; I do not want that.

I cannot prove any of my analysis on these two Mexican political parties either. These are just observations coming from a Mexican citizen worried about his country.

One party is to the left, the other to the right. So far so good. I am left (full disclosure). Now here I go:

Marcelo Ebrard, PRD Mayor of Mexico City is all over the place, cleaning the Metro (a billion people or more ride this system every year), investing 120 million dollars to face the catastrophe, and President Felipe Calderón PAN, is nowhere to be seen. What is wrong with this picture?

All I've seen Calderón do is go on TV and give fiery speeches on how he will fix everything. We should trust him, Mexicans are all he thinks about.

I'm sorry, if Calderón were as concerned as he says, he would have not let this happen, period. He is the President, he is in charge. All he had to do in taking office was to strengthen the Mexican Health System, that needs major investment. He did not do that. All I've seen him trying to do is to sell Mexican Oil to foreign companies.

I hope the next midterm election will put him in his place, PAN out.

I do not know which party is going to benefit more from this, but I do not expect the ruling party will.